Greg Spradlin @spradlig@social.cleverlibre.org
Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
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It's appalling that journalists and their news organizations never stand back in self-reflection to ask why the public is ill-informed on a topic when it is the supposed job of news to inform them. Why is the public ill-informed about the economy? It ain't Biden's fault, folks.
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Framing authority George Lakoff @georgelakoff yesterday quoted the brilliant Eric Blair's @protecttruth article:
Twitter is being used by a billionaire to shift public opinion. Time to go elsewhere >>> https://deepnarrative.substack.com/p/twitter-is-being-used-by-a-billionaire
"Twitter is now a danger to American democracy. The only effective solution now is to move to new platforms. There are other social media platforms... we can build them up to support honest debate and provide some replacements to Twitter."
Not only should #Apple cease advertising on Twitter, but Apple can and should stop offering the #Twitter app in its App Store. Twitter would sue, but I doubt they would prevail.
This would deal a huge, possibly fatal blow to Twitter. Apple, which has billions of dollars in cash reserves, would do just fine.
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I’ve been extremely disappointed but not surprised that so many brands continue to spend money advertising on a site that then pays a portion of that money out to anti-semites, hate mongers and accused sex traffickers like Andrew Tate.
Apple who is glad to take a moral stand against ads is now happy to literally put money in the pockets of virulent anti-semites to sell products. So much for those high ethical standards around human rights, I guess.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/09/05/betteridge-apple-twitter
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The work day after a teach-in opposing arming campus #police, the GW provost tells professors to speak only through official channels. A year ago, he defended employing Justice Thomas as an adjunct because "we steadfastly support the robust exchange of ideas.” But he would like #faculty opponents of putting more guns on campus to kindly keep quiet unless we’re asked to speak. #teaching
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BIG WIN: New York's Governor Kathy Hochul just announced they will be sending free N95/KN95 masks and #COVID tests to schools.
Thank you to COVID Advocacy NY and all the groups and advocates who have been pushing. Keep going: We need a free mask and test program for all New Yorkers!
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Our next meeting is Thurs., Sep. 14 at 4662 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Port Orange. Doors open 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:00. The guest speaker is community activist Terri Sharp.
#portorange #ponceinlet #wilburbythesea #volusiacounty #volusiademocrats #floridademocrats
#voteblue #gotv #takebackfl #takebackflorida #activism #inclusion #freedom
Peru has a special prison that’s just for its former presidents who have committed crimes.
Just FYI, no particular reason I’m bringing it up
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Incidentally, engineers are often a lot of fun to cross-examine, because all you have to do is insinuate they might not be the smartest person in the room and they will absolutely burn anything and everything to the ground--including their own reports--to prove you wrong.
They can walk away from a deposition feeling like a million bucks, and then 6 months later be like "what, who is this 'Daubert' guy that the judge trusts over me?"
NYT running an entire article on t***p’s possible mental state? C’mon, man.
“Inside Trump’s Decision to Skip the G.O.P. Debate
Fox News leaned on the former president privately and publicly to join the debate. But all the while he was proceeding with a plan for his own counterprogramming.”
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Non-paywalled New York Times article on indictment of t***p and cronies in Fulton County, GA for election interference:
https://tinyurl.com/bdzmb7rr
#trumpisacriminal #january6 #fascism
This article is informative: https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187530846/tuberville-senate-rules-abortion-military .
I wonder if McConnell can do anything. Such as support a GOP primary challenger. Because TT won’t be beaten by a Democrat.
Obviously the rules should be changed so that a lone dumbass who lives in the wrong state can’t imperil our military like this. There’s no reason why the confirmation process must take so long when 99 of the senators would approve a nominee without deliberation.
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There is no reason that Hunter Biden should be the lede of 3 articles at the top of the NYT page. I wish I could say it was unbelievable, but it's not.
@marcoshuerta @charlie_savage
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Keep up, man! A FOURTH one appeared today. Maggie Haberman is among the authors (I forgot the others).
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Hunter Biden is the Times’ 2024 version of “but her e-mails”. 😟
@portorangedems
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Make that at least FOUR stories. They published another one a few hours ago. One of its authors is T***p enabler Maggie Haberman.
@jplebreton @mhoye
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Do flowers exist at night?
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I keep thinking about how Google invested, keeps investing, billions of dollars in tools that functionally do little more than generate an unlimited supply of statistically plausible text completely disconnected from any that there's such a thing as truth or veracity or verifiability, and I have to imagine the search team just screaming into their pillows every night knowing it's going to destroy the company and everything it ever claimed to stand for.
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Remember the New York Times’ obsession with Hillary Clinton’s e-mails during the 2016 election season? It turned out to be a giant nothing burger. This time, NYT is determined to make Hunter Biden a thing. Today and yesterday, they have published at least THREE articles (one by Peter Baker 😟) about Hunter. There is no indication that President Biden did anything wrong.
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@Teri_Kanefield I generally wasn't worried about it until after he'd been indicted, arrested, arraigned, and in custody for serious federal crimes TWICE.
And they let him go.
Then I started wondering what the kid glove treatment was about.
I realize we can't just rush people into prison without going through the process, but "held pending trial" is a real thing that happens to real people (not billionaire former Presidents) as I understand it.
Like Reality Winner, who was a whistleblower and released only a single document.
There's probably a lot I don't understand here, legally.
But it does seem like a kid glove treatment.
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Judge Cannon Blows Off Concerns about Walt Nauta's Conflicted Representation
Math guy, computing wannabe, classical music lover, politico. Same handle on Instagram.
Joined Nov 2022
